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the way of a great scheme of this sort if the 

 government is satisfied on full consideration — 

 which shall be given to it — that the time is 

 ripe for this new enterprise. 



The Eoyal Academy of Sciences of Turin, 

 in accordance with the will of its former as- 

 sociate, the late Senator Thomas Vallauri, will 

 award a prize to the scientific investigator, 

 of Italian or any other nationality, who be- 

 tween January 1, 1907, and December 31, 1910, 

 shall have published the most important work 

 in the domain of physical science, taking that 

 term in its largest sense. The prize will be of 

 the value of $5,500. 



VNIVER8ITT AND EDUCATIONAL NEWS 

 By the will of Francis P. Furnald, of New 

 York City, Columbia University will receive 

 on the death of his widow $300,000 for a 

 dormitory, to be called Furnald Hall. 



By the will of the late Captain Thomas P. 

 Salter, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Dart- 

 mouth College will, on the death of his sister, 

 receive the residue of his estate, estimated at 

 about $250,000. 



By the will of the late Mrs. James W. 

 Queen $10,000 is bequeathed to Princeton 

 University to foimd two scholarships in mem- 

 ory of the late James W. Queen. 



By the will of the late General Samuel 

 E. Merwin, of New Haven, $5,000 has been be- 

 queathed to Tale University for the uses of 

 the medical school. 



The removal of the Connecticut Agricul- 

 tural College at Storrs to a position nearer 

 the center of population is being considered. 



The Massachusetts Agricultural College will 

 hold a Teachers' Summer School in Agricul- 

 ture with Professor F. A. Waugh as dean. 



The New York Evening Post states : In the 

 Museum of Natural History of Vassar Col- 

 lege much work is being done in rearranging 

 and remarking the collections. A special col- 

 lection illustrating all species of birds found 

 in the southeastern part of New York State 

 has been arranged in the interest of the mem- 



bers of the college who wish to study the local 

 birds. 



There is a movement to establish a second 

 Danish University at Aarhuus, the capital of 

 Jutland. 



The council of the University of Man- 

 chester have decided to institute two new lec- 

 tureships — one in economic zoology and one 

 in economic botany. 



Three hundred teachers from Toronto and 

 a hundred from Brantford, London, Hamilton 

 and other points will visit New York, Wash- 

 ington, Philadelphia and Baltimore during 



Easter week. 



At the University of Virginia appointments 

 have been made as follows: Dr. Stephen H. 

 Watts, of Johns Hopkins University, pro- 

 fessor of general surgery and director of the 

 University Hospital; Dr. Thomas L. Watson, 

 of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, pro- 

 fessor of economic geology; Dr. E. M. Bird, 

 of the University of Missouri, coUegiate pro- 

 fessor of chemistry, and Dr. Arthur E. Austin, 

 of Boston, adjunct professor of physiological 

 chemistry. 



Professor A. M. Soule, dean and director 

 of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute at 

 Blacksburg, has accepted a similar position 

 in the Agricultural College of Georgia. 



Mr. Clarence G. Derick, of the Massachu- 

 setts Institute of Technology, has been ap- 

 pointed laboratory and research assistant to 

 Professor Noyes, for the coming year, at the 

 University of Illinois. 



The Alice Freeman Palmer fellowship at 

 Wellesley College, which is of the value of 

 $1,000, has been awarded to Miss Helen B. 

 Cook, who will study psychology in Germany. 



Mr. a. p. Parsons, formerly of the Univer- 

 sity of Minnesota, has been appointed lec- 

 turer in mineralogy and petrography in the 

 University of Toronto. 



Dr. Hermann Kxaatsoh, who is at present 

 in Australia, has been appointed associate 

 professor of ethnology in the University of 

 Breslau. 



